Hobbyist Profile: Charlie Drew and the Elusive Red Crypt

Author: Richard Sexton

Photographer: Richard Sexton

Some plant species are rarely found in the hobby, and then there are some, like the giant red crypt, that hardly exist in the hobby at all. A hobbyist discusses his decades-long search to uncover the identity of the giant red crypt found almost exclusively in a single hobbyist’s home in Canada.